Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway
25 February 2023 has been hard to the Sámi indigenous peoples of northern Fennoscandia and Russian Kola. In fact, it will be undoubtedly remembered as one of the toughest days in Sámi recent history. On one side, a group of young Sámi activists (NSR) occupied the Oil and Energy Department, in Osl...
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ftunibolognairis:oai:cris.unibo.it:11585/950279 2024-04-14T08:11:27+00:00 Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway Nicola Renzi L. M. Kalinga Dona, S. Pettan Nicola Renzi 2023 STAMPA https://hdl.handle.net/11585/950279 eng eng Vidyalankara Press country:LKA place:Kelaniya info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/978-624-5507-52-8 ispartofbook:12th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Minorities with a joint day with the Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance Program & Abstracts 4-9 Dicembre 2023 firstpage:60 lastpage:60 numberofpages:1 alleditors:L. M. Kalinga Dona, S. Pettan https://hdl.handle.net/11585/950279 Indigenous music Sámi people joik activism soundscape Indigenous rights human rights minority rights self-determination Sámi rights digital activism political ecology linguistic landscape ethnomusicology social justice green colonialism info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject 2023 ftunibolognairis 2024-03-21T16:44:16Z 25 February 2023 has been hard to the Sámi indigenous peoples of northern Fennoscandia and Russian Kola. In fact, it will be undoubtedly remembered as one of the toughest days in Sámi recent history. On one side, a group of young Sámi activists (NSR) occupied the Oil and Energy Department, in Oslo, as more than 500 days passed since the Supreme Court concluded that the colossal windfarm in Fosen (Norway) violates Sámi human rights. Despite declaring the power plant illegal, the turbines were left operative thus hindering reindeer husbandry and the related indigenous stewardship of the land. Simultaneously in Helsinki, on the other side, the Sámi Parliament Act – which after decades of struggles and governmental stall would have ensured unprecedented self-identification and self-determination rights to the Sámi within Finnish law – was once more rejected. Based on primary material collected during fieldwork or retrieved from extensive social media review, the paper recounts the sonic and musical build-up to the mentioned date in order to capture and map sentiments, values and resilient acts of refusal articulated by Sámi artists and activists around the respective struggles. Through binaural recordings of rallying cries, audiovisual cues in live concerts, individual and collective joik performances, and many other modes of sonic demonstration, a series of histories of listening will be presented to advance an analysis of the controversial and fragile political status of the Sámi, as well as to address the most recent violation of fundamental human rights of a “minority on its own land” in the colonial European North. Conference Object Fennoscandia reindeer husbandry IRIS Università degli Studi di Bologna (CRIS - Current Research Information System) Norway |
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25 February 2023 has been hard to the Sámi indigenous peoples of northern Fennoscandia and Russian Kola. In fact, it will be undoubtedly remembered as one of the toughest days in Sámi recent history. On one side, a group of young Sámi activists (NSR) occupied the Oil and Energy Department, in Oslo, as more than 500 days passed since the Supreme Court concluded that the colossal windfarm in Fosen (Norway) violates Sámi human rights. Despite declaring the power plant illegal, the turbines were left operative thus hindering reindeer husbandry and the related indigenous stewardship of the land. Simultaneously in Helsinki, on the other side, the Sámi Parliament Act – which after decades of struggles and governmental stall would have ensured unprecedented self-identification and self-determination rights to the Sámi within Finnish law – was once more rejected. Based on primary material collected during fieldwork or retrieved from extensive social media review, the paper recounts the sonic and musical build-up to the mentioned date in order to capture and map sentiments, values and resilient acts of refusal articulated by Sámi artists and activists around the respective struggles. Through binaural recordings of rallying cries, audiovisual cues in live concerts, individual and collective joik performances, and many other modes of sonic demonstration, a series of histories of listening will be presented to advance an analysis of the controversial and fragile political status of the Sámi, as well as to address the most recent violation of fundamental human rights of a “minority on its own land” in the colonial European North. |
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Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway |
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Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway |
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Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway |
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Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway |
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Today Has Been Hard: A Sonic Account on the Simultaneous Fall of Human Rights in Finland and Norway |
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today has been hard: a sonic account on the simultaneous fall of human rights in finland and norway |
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